Exercising apparatus for children.



.110. 821,391. PATENTED MAY 22, 1906. s. E. WILTSE. A EXERGISING APPARATUS FOR CHILDREN.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 20, 1905.

TINITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SARA E. WILTSE, or BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

EXERCISING APPARATUS FOR CHILDREN.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Iatented May 22, 1906.

Application filed November 20,1905. Serial No. 288,141.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SARA E. WILTSE, of Boston, county of Suffolk, State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Exercising Apparatus for Children, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification, like characters on the drawings representing like parts.

This invention has forits object to construct an apparatus especially designed for small children to climb upon, and thereby exercise their inherent climbing propensities.

The invention consists, essentially, in two flights of stairs, each having a broad landing at the top and arranged with the two landings in the same plane and abutted together and each having hand-engaging bars as risers. Hinged connections are preferably employed for connecting the two flights of stalrs together, so that when the apparatus is not in use it may be closed up. Braces are provided, which are connected to the two flights of stairs to assist in holding them in their proper relative positions, and said braces are preferably made collapsible to provide for closing up the apparatus when not in use.

Figure 1 shows in perspective an exercising apparatus embodying this invention, and Fig. 2 is a vertical longitudinal section showing the parts closed up in the position they will occupy when the apparatus is not in use.

The apparatus comprises, essentially, two flights of stairs, which are made substantially alike. Each flight consists of a pair of side pieces or supports a, cut to provide for treads and risers, and treads Z), secured to the treadreceiving portions thereof, and hand-engaging bars 0, secured to the riser-receiving portions thereof. At the .top of each flight a broad landing d is provided, and the two flights are arranged with the two broad landings (Z occupying the same plane and abutted together, thereby presenting at the top of the apparatus a large platform. The two flights of stairs thus provided with two landings which are abutted together are connected together by hinges e or' otherwise, although hinges are preferably employed as a-means of connecting them to provide for closing up the apparatus when not in use. At each side of the apparatus braces f are provided, each brace being composed of two bars pivotally connected together at their inner ends to provide for collapsing them and pivotally connected at their outer ends to the sides a of the two flights of stairs. These braces serve to hold the'two flights in proper relative positions. The apparatus may be made of any suitable dimensions, but in practice will be about three feet high.

For the purposes of this invention ladders cannot be used. Hence my invention is lim ited to the employment of stairs, but, as will be observed, as risers for the stairs strips 0 are employed, which are adapted to be grasped by the hand or hands of the child to assist in climbing the stairs.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

In an exercising apparatus for children, two flights of stairs, each consisting of a pair of side supportsformed with tread-receiving portions and riser-receiving portions, treads secured to the tread-receiving portions thereof, and hand-engaging bars secured to the riser-receiving portions thereof, and means for connecting said flights together with the top treads in the same plane and abutted to gether, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

v SARA E. WILTSE. Witnesses:

B. J. NOYES, H. B. DAVIS, 

